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Working Together With Local Businesses

You need many people and organizations to create and maintain any business, from the janitor who cleans your building to the celebrity who endorses your brands. This concept translates to relationships with other ...

Open Data: What are the Implications for the Smaller Business?

What exactly is meant by the term “open data”? More specifically, what does it mean for your small business? Open data is the concept of certain data being freely available to anyone who ...

Know When to Hold and When to Fold – The Art of Giving Up

Sometimes, you just have to know when to quit. Yes, we’re talking about your business, and I know you’ve poured your heart and soul into it. You’ve probably logged too many hours to ...

Thinking of Building an App? – Five Things to Consider Before You Start

Building a company app can open up all sorts of doors for you. It can lead to new marketing frontiers, provide better and more up to the minute information to your customers, provide ...

“Heartbleed” Threat Affects Entire Internet – What You Should Do

You’ve probably been hearing about it. There’s a bug…a security hole on the internet in the secure socket layer called “Heartbleed.” You may not understand some of the words I just typed. You ...

Diminishing Attention Spans – How to Catch and Keep Zapper-man

Once upon a time, the adult attention span was twelve minutes. An average adult could stay focused on a task for twelve minutes without becoming distracted. In today’s modern, 24/7, always-on world, the ...

How Biometric Technology Will Impact Your Business

Biometric technology is a technology of the now. It’s already fairly well developed and advanced. Not to say that additional advances aren’t coming, but you won’t have to wait five or ten years, ...

The Mission Statement: Useful Management Tool Or Tired Old Claptrap?

There are some in management, not many, but some, who live and breathe the notion of the Mission Statement. These people tend to be almost evangelical about it, preaching the gospel and importance ...

Bringing It All Back Home: Why It Makes Sense To Manufacture In The USA

In order to understand why “re-shoring” makes sense, you’ve first got to understand why off-shoring made sense. Off-shoring (along with “downsizing” and “rightsizing”- probably two of the most despised terms in business) began ...

“Our Grandchildren Will Do Business With Your Grandchildren” – Learning From The Chinese

More American-based companies than ever are doing business in China, or at least learning from their Eastern counterparts. This trend doesn’t only apply to large businesses, but smaller ones too. This movement is ...